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Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It’s not a matter of accumulating information and sharing them. IRSHAD SALIM
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DESPARDES — India weaponizes music to push Saffron agenda of Hinduatva, cow protection, anti Muslim sentiments, and push to transform Kashmir’s social fabric through forced conversions and immigration. A recent
Continue reading‘Hate With a Pop Sheen’ Songs Gaining Popularity Among India Youth
Only 20 percent of the available cargo capacity was being airlifted which has now been improved to 80 percent. DESPARDES — Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has halved its monthly operating
Continue readingGreat People to Fly With: PIA Inches Toward Turnaround
DESPARDES — When Narendra Modi was first elected in 2014, many hoped he would focus on the economy over social issues. Five years hence, the world’s third-largest economy is in
Any student of India-Pakistan relations knows that breakthroughs derived from track one diplomacy are few and far between C J WERLEMAN — Last week, India and Pakistan signed a historic
Continue readingWhy Imran Khan Deserves Praise for Kartarpur Corridor: C J Werleman
DESPARDES — IT’S A WATERSHED day in the history of the subcontinent. “The future trajectory of Pakistan and India cross over,” says a Pakistani defense expert. “We take a flight
DESPARDES — The US has been holding negotiations with the Afghan Taliban to facilitate a peace settlement in Afghanistan that would enable Trump to eventually bring home most of the
Continue readingWhere Does Afghan Peace Process Stand After Talks Collapsed and Kashmir Locked Down?
IRSHAD SALIM — Last year almost this time some schoolchildren in Riyadh exhibited what they though Kashmir is all about– evoking their impressionable feelings and innocent but discerning eyes with
Continue readingHave a Heart: Kashmir Dignity, Honor is Under Siege in a Land Under Lockdown
DESPARDES — FOXNEWS poll says Joe Biden (D) leads nomination race, tops Trump (R) by 12 points in matchup, and if Hillary Clinton entered the presidential race today, she would
Continue readingTrump’s Punishing Diet ‘Self-Destructive’, Worrisome: Psychiatrist
The primacy of class not religion assertion stands being deconstructed akin to the ‘Hindu’, ‘Muslim’ (and ‘British’) narrative in Mill’s book post-Tipu Sultan the Tiger of Mysore. DESPARDES — Karnataka’s
Continue readingBJP’s Attempt to Deconstruct Tipu Sultan –With Hindutva Zeal
DESPARDES — Last year in October, Christophe Jaffrelot, a Senior Research Fellow at the CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS opined that a new arms race is underway in the region, but India suffers
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IRSHAD SALIM — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has reportedly allowed a delegation of 30 European Union (EU) Members of Parliament (MPs), drawn mainly from extreme right-wing parties, to be